DANIEL, Thomas Brammall (1873-1956), a native of Manchester, Engl. was born on 26 September 1873 and articled with J.D. Harker in Manchester from 1889 to 1894. He later worked as assistant to Harker, to H.S. Fairhurst and J.G. Saultey from 1894 to 1900, then practised under his own name in Manchester from 1901 to 1906. After emigrating to Canada in late 1906 he settled in Montreal where for the next five years hs worked as assistant in the offices of R.M. Rodden, with Brown & Vallance, and with Hutchison & Wood. He was a talented designer and delineator who was awarded First Prize in the 1907 competition for the Canadian Home Industries Exhibit Rooms (C.A.B., xx, Jan. 1907, vii). Daniel moved to Saskatoon in May 1911 and joined in a partnership with Norman L. Thompson and G.B. Colthurst (see list of works under Thompson, Daniel & Colthurst). Together the firm was credited with some of the most distinctive and progressive work in Saskatoon including St. John's Anglican Church (1912-13), the YWCA (1911), and the McLean Block (1911-12). When Thompson left the firm in early 1914 Daniel & Colthurst continued to work together until 1915 when the firm was dissolved. In 1914 their firm was one of sixty-two entrants in the competition for the new Departmental Buildings in Ottawa (NAC, RG11, Vol. 2952, File 5370-1B). Their submission was not among the six finalists. Daniel later returned to England and opened an office in 1918 under his own name. In 1923 he was residing on Victoria Street in London (F. Chatterton, Who's Who in Architecture, 1923, 71; biog. Who's Who & Why in Canada, 1913, 181; R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 495; inf. Saskatchewan Assoc. of Architects). Daniel died at Chislehurst, Co. Kent, England on 15 November 1956 (obit. The Builder [London], cxci, 23 Nov. 1956, 897). A photographic portrait of Daniel was published in The Saturday Press (Saskatoon), Building & Development Number, 1912, p. 27.
(with Richard M. Rodden) MONTREAL ICE PALACE, in Fletcher's Field, built in January 1909, in the "English Tudor Baronial style" (Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 1908, 10, illus. & descrip.)
ISLE CADIEUX, QUE. a large residence for R.P. Cowen (C.R., xxiv, 27 July 1910, 25)
LONDON, ENGL., steel fabrication plant for the shipping industry, Royal Albert Dock, 1918-19 (Builder [London], cxviii, 12 March 1920, 302-03, illus. & descrip.)
PLAISTOW, ENGL. The Red Triangle Club, a YMCA-YWCA club for men and women, 1920 (Builder [London], cxviii, 30 Jan. 1920, 134, 136 ff., descrip. and two plate illus.; The Architect [London], cvii, 21 April 1922, 288ff, plate illus.)
LONDON, ENGL., Memorial Hostel for the British & Foreign Sailor's Society, 1920 (The Architect [London], ciii, 20 Feb. 1920, 120, descrip. and two plate illus.).